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» News: Utah Open Source Conference 2009 Call for Papers NOW OPEN!

The Utah Open Source Conference 2009 is just around the corner, October 8-10, 2009 is not too far away!! It’s time to submit your presentations. UTOSC 2008 received over 90 submissions, and we ended up with over 50 presentations. The odds are good that if your presentation is a good open source topic, it will get selected.

The Call for Papers for UTOSC 2009 is officially open! Paper submission deadline is August 15, 2009 at Midnight, just under 2 months prior to UTOSC 2009, October 8-10 2009.

This year, we’ve enabled a few new features to conman, our paper submission system. First off, everyone can see all of the abstracts which have been submitted, which includes a new RSS Feed for watching new submissions. Also, about 1 month before selections are made (about 2 months before UTOSC 2009), we’ll open voting to any registered attendees, speakers, volunteers, etc. We’re excited to enable these new features and will be working hard to make more improvements to the system. We want to send a shout out to our programmers for their hard work on our system this year.

If you’ve got something to share, something to tell, something to introduce or something to show, please take the time and submit a presentation to the Utah Open Source Conference 2009. We’d love to see your presentation!!

Some people are natural public speakers and presenters while others are reluctant to imagine themselves in front of a group of people at a conference. Nobody should feel unqualified or inexperienced to present. We want presenters who can share information at all levels.

And now, some tough questions.

What should I talk about?

You should talk about Open Source software, philosophy, technology, etc. The theme for this year’s conference centers around ‘Ability’ so your topic can be targeted at beginners, experts, or someone in between.

It may help to see what topics were presented last year. Go to <http://2008.utosc.com/speaker/list/> for information about 2008’s conference sessions.

This year, several sessions will be targeted at beginning or “newbie” users including those who are family members of an Open Source geek. Basic sessions around Linux, The GIMP, or WordPress are good examples of these types of sessions.

We have really expanded our categories offerings this year and you can select multiple audiences as well. If there is a category you do not see listed, please let us know by emailing our program coordinator, Clint Savage at <clint@utos.org>.

What does a response to a call for papers look like?

You should come up with a brief outline, or abstract, of your presentation and who would be interested. You should also provide some information about you, your
experience with open source software and the specific aspects you’re proposing to speak about.

Here’s an example of an abstract:

Title: Open source home security

This presentation will outline how I have used a Linux server, IP cameras, and open source software, to provide around-the-clock video and image surveilance of my home which is archived for later viewing and is available for viewing via the Web when I’m not at home.

The presentation will describe how to set up a system similar to mine and what alternatives are available for software and hardware in the system.

What’s in it for me?

There are lots of perks reserved for people chosen to present at the Utah Open Source Conference!

Resumé material
Having presented on a topic at a conference is a great thing to add to your resumé and could make the difference the next time you apply for a job.

Free admission
If you’re chosen as a speaker, we’ll let you — and your family — into the conference for FREE!

A picture and a paragraph
Speakers are asked to submit a digital photo and a paragraph of biographical information which will be seen by those viewing the UTOSC website and those reading the conference program.

Warm fuzzies
Being involved in the Utah Open Source Conference is a great experience. Just ask anyone who was involved in UTOSC 2007 or UTOSC 2008.

What’s that URL again?
Go to <http://2009.utosc.com/> and get yourself an account. Then you can submit as many presentation ideas as you wish!!

by admin at 5:53 AM under 2009 , abstract , call for papers , community , conference , events , news , utosc (Comments)

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» 10 Advanced PHP Tips (Revisted)

Here is a an article that I think a few of us might enjoy. This article talks about 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited. Check out the article @ Smashing Magazine.

by thebigdog at 7:23 PM under news (Comments)

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» News: Utah Open Source Events for June 2009

The Utah Open Source Foundation, in its goal to promote Open Source throughout Utah and beyond, is proud to promote the following events. These events are generally related to Open Source and Technology in Utah. If your event is not listed below, please contact clint@utos.org to get it added.

Utah Technology Community Announcements

• UTOS-ConMan HackNights happen most every Tuesday night in June, watch http://utos.org for announcements.
• Watch for the UTOSC 2009 ‘Call for Papers’ - http://2009.utosc.com

If you have announcements or events that are happening around open source in Utah which you would like included, please contact clint@utos.org.
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Upcoming Activities for June 2009

Wed, June 10, 11:30pm – 1:00pm
SLLUG: Daytime SIG Meeting
Topic: IPTables Basics
Where: BetaLoft SLC - 357 West 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Clint Savage, herlo1@gmail.com

Wed, June 10, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Provo Linux Users Group
Topic: KVM & QEMU
Link: http://plug.org
Where: Omniture
Contact: Ryan Simpkins, simpkins.ryan @gmail.com

Thu, June 11, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Mobile Developers Group
Where: STG Dev Center, 555 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Contact: Glen Lewis, glen @ glenlewis.com

Thu, June 11, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah Python User Group Meeting
Link: http://utahpython.org
Topic: GUI Toolkit Extravaganza
Where: University of Utah, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building, Room 1200
Contact: Dave, tonedevf AT gmail.com

Sat, June 13th (All Day)
SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF)
Where: Clemson, South Carolina
Info: http://southeastlinuxfest.org

Sat, June 13th, 12-5pm
Utah CodeAway
Link: http://codeaway.org/
Where: BetaLoft, 357 West 200 South, Suite 201, Salt Lake City
Contact: Laura Moncur, laura @ moncur.biz

Sat, June 13, 6pm – 8pm
Ubuntu-Utah Meeting
Link: http://utah.ubuntu-us.org
Where: University of Utah - Merrill Engineering Building (MEB) Comp-Sci Labs Rm 2555
Contact: Aaron Toponce, aarontoponce@ gmail.com

June 17-19
Open Source Bridge
Where: Portland, Oregon
Info: http://opensourcebridge.org

Wed, June 17, 7:10pm – 8:40pm
Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG)
Link: http://sllug.org
Where: University of Utah, Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 101 or 103 (Previously known as EMCB)
Contact: Marc Christensen marc aT mecworks.com

Thu, June 18, 6pm – 9pm
Utah Java User’s Group (ujug.org)
Link: http://ujug.org
Where: SelectHealth (IHC), 4646 West Lake Park Blvd., West Valley City
Contact: Chris Maki, chrismaki AT me.com

Thu, June 18, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU)
Topic: Fundamentals of PHP by Adam Barrett
Link: http://uphpu.org
Where: Bill Good Marketing, Draper, Utah
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla @ gmail.com

Sat, June 20, 12pm - 2pm
Nerds in the Sun, Provo Linux User Group InterLug Barbecue
(sponsored by Utah Open Source)
Link: http://blog.utos.org/2009/05/27/event-nerds-in-the-sun-plug-summer-bbq/
Where: Scera Park, Orem, Utah (map)

Tue, June 23, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
SLC Ruby (slc.rb)
Link: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/urug
Where: Neumont University Room #300
Contact: Jake Mallory, tinomen @gmail.com

Thu, June 25, 8:00am – 9:30am
CTO Breakfast
Link: http://www.windley.com/cto_forum
Where: Novell Cafeteria
Contact: Phil Windley, phil At windley.org

Thu, June 25, 6pm – 8pm
Logan Dev Group
Where: Room 208 (Faculty Seminar Lounge), Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Contact: Matthew Reinbold, matthew.reinbold At voxpopdesign.com

Fri, June 26, 12:30pm – 2pm
UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch
Link: http://utos.org/geek-lunch
Contact: Victor Villa, vvilla AT gmail.com

Tue, June 30, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Ogden Area Linux User Group
Link: http://oalug.com
Where: Weber County Main Library, Board Room
Contact: Seth House, whiteinge@ gmail.com

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Each of the events were pulled from the Utah Tech Events calendar, feel free to subscribe by clicking the link below (or adding the following feed to your calendaring program)
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Utah Tech Events Calendar - Google Calendar: http://sn.im/ute-calendar
Utah Tech Events Calendar - iCal Feed: http://sn.im/ute-calendar-ics

Utah Open Source Foundation also regularly records Local User Group (LUG) meetings throughout the state. Feel free to check out our podcasts and live streaming schedules.

Utah Open Source Podcasts - http://podcast.utos.org

by admin at 5:56 PM under 2009 , community , events , june , meetings , news , usergroups , utos (Comments)

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» Congrats: SLLUG celebrates 15 years

I wanted to personally congratulate the Salt Lake Linux User Group on 15 years of Linux education and community. It’s exciting to see such a strong following! Thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into making SLLUG such a great group.

Here’s the email from Marc Christensen:

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group started its humble beginnings sometime in May of 1994. A few weeks later we officially incorporated as a non-profit on July 28, 1994. That makes this month our 15th year soft-anniversary with the official one coming up in July. It also makes SLLUG one of the oldest and most established Linux user groups in the world!

Congratulations to everyone one for making SLLUG a success and contributing to such a great Local Linux community. We have members of our group that have greatly influenced and contributed heavily to Linux over the years. We make up a diverse group of individuals of varied backgrounds and depth of knowledge.

We rock! :) Thanks to everyone who has helped make the Salt Lake Linux Users Group such a success over the years and here’s to many many more!!!!!

–
Marc Christensen
http://www.sllug.org

Again, congratulations to the Salt Lake Linux User Group and all of its members for 15 great years. Here’s looking forward to 15 more.

Cheers,

Herlo

Now: Life has been hectic, but there’s still some silver lining

I’m currently sitting on a plane headed to Seattle for the Linuxfest NorthWest, where I will give my Fedora Remix presentation again. I’m hopeful that many people will desire to build their own remixes of Fedora. I am certain that there are many potential ideas out there. I’m still working on a kiosk system :)

I’m also interested in meeting with the folks who organize LFNW and talking about some new programs I think will be very beneficial to all Linux/Open Source community conferences. This is where I think the value of collaboration will really help us grow our respective regions into a much bigger/better way to promote free software.

One idea I have going is better collaboration on a conference management system. I sure hope the everyone at LFNW are as keen to helping as they were at SCaLE (hey gang!). This is something that I will be announcing very soon and hope to get a good sized community around.

OLPC: Starting a hacking group

This past Wednesday was the first UTOS-XO hackfest. We spent about 2 hours discussing the new partnership between Utah Open Source, Fedora and the One Laptop groups. The plan, set in motion by my good friend, David Nalley, was to obtain a bunch of XO’s, distribute them across North America to those who would volunteer a few hours a week to develop a fourth grade math curriculum.

We had 11 attendees, with 2 new who volunteered to spend some time developing activities along these lines. To be truthful, I think the UTOS-XO group will really shine and bring forth a good set of activities. We were able to identify 3 different activities to develop with a goal to bring the code back next month so we could ’sugarize’ them and include them in the XO for fourth graders.

I wanted to mention that two of the volunteers in the room were quite young. Christian is 14 years and Ethan is 11. These two seemed quite capable of creating activities. Before we separated for the evening, Christian already had one component built and was showing me how he had written an activity to add 5-digit numbers together. How exciting!

Feel free to check out the pictures.

UTOS: Growing the Community

In addition to the OLPC hackfest, my role at the Utah Open Source Foundation has been expanded to focus more on the community. I’ve been able to hand off much of the conference planning to a trusty fellow, Will Smith. I’m excited to see what ideas he has in store for this year’s conference.

Because of this change, my role has started to become more involved with marketing and budgeting areas. I’m also very interested in growing a few of the programs UTOS has been doing for a while. For instance, I’m interested in streaming screencasts of the meetings (both video and audio) in the very near future on a limited basis. This is experimental, but should be great. I’ve been able to get gstreamer to stream vnc connections and audio mostly working and streaming to our server. It should be just a matter of time before I have a fully working application to show off.

This past week, three of the great folks who run the Utah Open Source Foundation and Conference were interviewed on Technometria, a podcast by Phil Windley. It’s among the highest rated podcasts on IT Conversations. We spent a good chunk of an hour talking about the Utah Open Source Conference and just building a community in general. It was really exciting being interviewed and sharing our opinions. I look forward to the feedback.

Another great component is the Utah Tech Events Calendar. As of March, I’ve been sending out an email near the beginning of the month with all of the tech events on our calendar. I’m excited to see this grow and continue. One highlight I’ve been seeing is the Geek Lunches and Geek/Blogger Dinners. These once a month activities give those who don’t have a ton of time otherwise, an opportunity to participate in the Utah tech community.

If you are interested in helping out the Utah Open Source community in any capacity, we’d love to have your help, desire and excitement. Please send me an email (clint@utos.org) explaining your desire and we’ll get you working on the things that interest you the most. It’s always a good resume builder even if you will learn how to be a good system administrator, programmer or designer. We need your help!

Cheers,

Herlo

Affordability

Affordability doesn’t just mean cost, it also means value. Free and open source software (FOSS) provides this value. Not only in it’s low costs (aka free as in beer), but in it’s maintenance costs being only those of expertise. No contracts to sign, no company to ask for improvements, and value added because you can make the change yourself. In addition, because expertise is generally the only cost, companies that use free software won’t feel locked in when looking for support options.

Scalability

Scalability means many things to many people: flexibility of costs, software load management, ability to grow without complication, and many more. Scalability makes things better. Free and open source software provides solutions in every area from customer management to security, and simple applications to complex environments. Because code is so easy to view and change, FOSS has the most flexible, scalable solutions around.

Reliability

Reliability is among the most important components in free and open source software. The number of eyes looking at the code, and the community that helps make the software, provides a paradigm which sets FOSS apart. Being able to make changes and have a community willing to test the software makes it more reliable and solid. If you want reliability, you go with free and open source software, its community of developers, testers, and users.

These three components of the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 will excite the mind, challenge the soul and ultimately improve free and open source software. We at the Utah Open Source Foundation look forward to seeing your presentation, thoughts and enjoyment of this theme during the upcoming UTOSC 2009.

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009. Watch for the announcement of the venue and conference dates in the next couple days.

Cheers,

Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation

by admin at 11:22 PM under 2009 , conference , events , membership , news , utosc , utosc2009 , videos (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» Fedora Classroom: April 4-5, 2009 - We need your presentation

Well, it’s that time of the month again, this coming weekend April 4 & 5 will be the sessions for the Fedora Classroom. This month’s sessions are perfect for those in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Give a Presentation

If you are interested in helping us out with a presentation on anything related to Fedora or Free Software, we’d love to see it in the Fedora Classroom this weekend. If you are not familiar with the MediaWiki syntax, just add a note on the wiki page or contact Kevin Fenzi (nirik) or me (herlo).

New MC

In addition, we have a new Master of Ceremonies for this session. Max Spevack will head this up and help keep things on time. We’d like to thank him for performing this vital service.

More Volunteers Needed

If you are interested in helping out with the IRC logs
We need you help us to spread the word about upcoming Fedora Classroom events.
- Blog about it
- Tell your friends
- Invite someone to teach a class

If you can help or know someone who can help, feel free to contact either Kevin Fenzi (nirik) or me (herlo) and we’ll give you the low down.

Cheers,

Herlo

Other Points of Interest

March 15, 2009 — Disabling OpenID Plugin (1)
March 7, 2009 — Trying Out a New Theme (16)
October 27, 2008 — Quick Update About The Forum (4)

by Christer Edwards at 7:45 PM under news , openid (Comments)

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» Reminder: SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting THIS Wednesday @ 11:30am

Hi all,

Just wanted to give you all a quick reminder that the first SLLUG (daytime SIG) meeting will be this Wednesday, March 11 from 11:30am-1pm. Bring your sack lunch if you want to join in that new tradition.

This month’s meeting will be ‘LVM Basics’ by Kevin Benko. I’d like to thank Kevin for stepping up to present this topic. LVM is quite awesome and useful.

I should also mention that I’ll be bringing some swag to give away. I have some cool computer bags to give away, so come on down and get your SWAG.

I’ve included the details about location again below. For particulars inside the library, read my previous post.

If you have questions, feel free to email me directly <herlo1 AT gmail>.

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Salt Lake Public Library:
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT‎ - (801) 524-8200‎
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/slcpubliclibrary

See you all there.

Herlo

Other Points of Interest

March 3, 2009 — Thinking About Covering More Than Just Ubuntu… (25)
October 18, 2008 — The FreeBSD Series (0)
October 17, 2008 — tinkering with FreeBSD (9)

by Christer Edwards at 5:50 PM under blog.zelut.org , centos , cisco , freebsd , news , rss (Comments)

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» Event: UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch

Today @ 12:30pm will be the UTOS/UPHPU Geek Lunch at “The Soup Kitchen“. If you are geek enough to join us, come on by as we’ll probably be there for a good hour and half.

Where: The Soup Kitchen, 1185 Richards St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 (map)
Why: Because geeks need to eat and discuss
Phone: (801) 531-7093

General geek discussions will commence around sandwiches, soup and soda. Come and join in the fun.

Cheers,

Clint

by Clint Savage at 2:30 PM under community , events , geek , lunch , news , uphpu , utos (Comments)

» Event: Podcamp SLC, Coming March 27th

PodCampSLC, which really should be called PodCampUtah, since everyone is invited, is still about learning how to podcast, why it’s important, what it can do for your business , your cause, or even your hobby. We will provide classes on equipment, software, delivery mechanisms, privacy and copyright issues, marketing and even some ways to make money. Video has become so popular, that we will be talking about using video in several different scenarios.

source: FPR

Every Blogger, Teacher, Doctor, Mom and Musician should attend PodCampSLC. It’s not all about podcasting. It’s about building brands and marketing, community and connecting. Using social networks like Facebook and MySpace. We have classes that will teach you how to shoot small video clips and use YouTube to gain exposure. Families are staying in touch through audio and video blogging. But most importantly, its connecting with a community of people who have the same goals in mind. We want to help people understand how to use these tools and platforms.

After dozens of PodCamps were held around the world, some changes were made to the rules. Included were allowing event organizers to charge attendees. Some of the events were so large and so costly that it was not financially practical to run a free event. Another change was allowing for some predefined classes. At some of the events, there were so many people who weren’t familiar with podcasting enough to teach that many felt it a waste of time.

Join us at Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, on March 27th, from 8:30AM-5:00PM. http://podcampslc.org for registration.

by Clint Savage at 7:29 AM under audio , conference , events , news , podcamp , podcasting , podcasts , slc (Comments)

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» I’m Famous: Spinning Your Own Linux LiveCD from TheBitSource.com

Not wanting to toot my own horn too much, but this is awesome!!

http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/02/28/scale-7x-clint-savage-of-fedora-project-on-spinning-your-own-linux-livecd/

and currently, it’s the featured story on their home page.

Herlo

Other Points of Interest

February 26, 2009 — Simplify Dropbox URLs with Lighttpd (2)
February 24, 2009 — DNS Hiccup (0)
February 23, 2009 — Simplest Wordpress Permalink Solution for Lighttpd (9)
February 19, 2009 — Web Server Rebuild and Migration: Apache to lighttpd (2)
November 13, 2008 — Monitor System Logs With Logwatch (3)
November 11, 2008 — Relaying Postfix SMTP via smtp.gmail.com (13)
November 9, 2008 — Install Lighttpd with PHP FastCGI on Ubuntu 8.10 (6)
June 18, 2008 — Tunnel Web and DNS Traffic Over SSH (5)
June 17, 2008 — Enhance Your Network Connection With OpenDNS (11)

by Christer Edwards at 5:42 AM under bind , dns , lighttpd , linode , news , postfix (Comments)

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» Reminder: SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting THIS Wednesday @ 11:30am

Hi all,

Just wanted to give you all a quick reminder that the first SLLUG (daytime SIG) meeting will be this Wednesday, Feb 11 from 11:30am-1pm

The first meeting I will present ‘Fedora Remix: Custom distributions based upon proven design’

I should also mention that I’ll be bringing some swag to give away. I have some cool computer bags and a copy of the latest openSUSE 11.1 boxed edition to give away.

I’ve included the details about location again below. For particulars inside the library, read my previous post.

If you have questions, feel free to email me directly <herlo1 AT gmail>.

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Salt Lake Public Library:
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT‎ - (801) 524-8200‎
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/slcpubliclibrary

See you all there.

Herlo

Here’s the rest of the details:

Conference room A on the lower level of the Salt Lake Library has been reserved. Head down the stairs, make a left turn (essentially a U turn). The conference room is directly under the foyer area (the area with all the shops on the 1st level) If you aren’t clear, ask the information desk. A map is available here of all floor plans of the library.

Also, our meetings should be posted on the Electric Signs by the entrance to the library on the first floor.

Meeting Days & Times:

All meetings will be held from 11:30am - 1pm on the Second Wednesday of each month.

Wednesday, February 11
Wednesday, March 11
Wednesday, April 8
Wednesday, May 13
Wednesday, June 10

Feel free to add this and other Utah Tech Events to your calendar by adding the ‘Utah Tech Events’ feed to your calendar.

Traxx

You can get off 2 blocks west of the Library. If you get off at the ‘Courthouse 500 South’ stop
There is also a University Train that stops right next to the library, but you’ll have to transfer at Gallivan Center.

Parking

Parking is recommended to be one block away from the Library as they have reduced the meters in front of the Library to only 30 minutes. However the meters directly east (on 200 East) should still be 2 hours. Make sure to check the time you allow yourself is plenty.

See you all there.

Herlo

The Utah Open Source Foundation “Mind Map”

After creating the Fedora Project Mind Map, I was better able to understand how UTOS was currently structured. I was able to put together the main pieces pretty quickly, although it seems there are several gaps in my thought process still. For that reason, I’m opening the UTOS structure up as well. It might not have as many contributors, but I’d like to see the structure grow.

Mark Your Calendars

I’m organizing a Fedora 10 release party, with a usb creation station, installfest and all that jazz. It will probably be held on December 6. There are a couple possible locations currently being discussed. More details to come in the near future.

Cheers,

Herlo

Why the change?

The Utah Open Source Foundation has had in its plans for some time to create a Planet built solely from people providing useful technical experiences. Many of the blogs on the current UTOSP are political, religious and many other non-technical related topics.

The point here is that many people enjoy blogging about items outside open source and technology. While blogging about whatever you like is a fine thing to do, the new UTOSP will do its best to provide options for those individuals who prefer to just discuss technology. To that end, the new UTOSP will provide multiple options to the choosy reader. Of course there will be the full planet, with feeds from everyone, as well as a planet just for LUGs and Event announcements.

The Request

We at UTOS will be contacting those on the current planet. The plan will be to obtain a few feeds from each contributor. The feeds will be ‘general’ and ‘technology only’ or something along these lines. The idea is to provide options to our readers by providing them multiple ways to get at the information they’d like to read. If you are unavailable or unable to provide these alternate feeds, your blog will only appear on the planets for which you do have feeds, currently the ‘general’ planet.

The Future Planet

If the future plans hold, there will be a planet based upon popular categories and tags. These planets will be static at first, then move to a more dynamic ‘pick & choose’ functionality creating a dynamic page and rss feed associated with an account.

The functional site will, for now, provide simple rss feeds based upon requests made to clints@utos.org. Watch for these changes over the next few weeks and months and feel free to provide feedback as we really would like to hear from you. Comments here on this post or send an email. As always, come on by #utos on irc.freenode.net as well.

Cheers,

Clint

by Clint Savage at 8:26 PM under community , lugs , news , planet , usergroups , utos , utosp (Comments)

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» Video: Matt Asay of Alfresco presenting at UTOSC 2008

Video of Matt Asay’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity is now available from opensourcetv.tv.

Matt Asay at UTOSC 2008

Matt Asay presented on Friday morning, 29 August.

by Doran Barton at 9:51 PM under conference , events , matt asay , membership , news , streaming , utosc , video , videos (Comments)

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» Event: Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party, November 8, 6pm

As pointed out at the Ubuntu Utah website, the Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party will be held November 8, 2008.

As you are probably aware, Ubuntu version 8.10 of Linux has been released. So, a release party is on the schedule for the regularly scheduled meeting:

Date: Nov 8th, 2008
Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Bakery at Gourmandie’s
Address: 300 East 250 South, SLC - Map

Reliable wireless is provided, and there is plenty of seating for those who have been there. The food is great and the deserts even more so. They know we are coming,

Hope this party is a blast and we look forward to lot’s of pictures.

by Clint Savage at 10:16 PM under community , events , meetings , news , parties , release , release party , ubuntu (Comments)

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» WordCamp Utah in two short weeks

Calling anyone and everyone interested in WordPress, we’re getting together for WordCamp Utah in Provo, Utah! They’ve got a great line up of speakers, including WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg and long time WordPress developer Alex King.

The cost is only $20 and includes lunch, t-shirt, stickers, etc. Signing up only takes a minute. Help spread the word! Blog about it and tell your friends!

When: Saturday September 27, 2008 from 9:30am - 5:00pm
Where: Novell, Open Source Technology Center (Building A) 1800 Novell Place Provo, Utah 84606 Map
Website: http://utah.wordcamp.org/
Price: $20 - Buy Tickets

by Clint Savage at 8:02 PM under conference , events , mullenweg , news , utah , wordcamp , wordpress (Comments)

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» UTOSC 2008: Paul Frields’ and Mac Newbold’s keynotes available on OpenSourceTV.tv

If you missed the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference or attended and want to relive a piece of it, you’re in luck.

OpenSourceTV.tv, a service provided by KnowledgeBlue and the Utah Open Source Foundation, is now (finally) up and currently features video of UTOSC keynote addresses given by Paul Frields (of Fedora/Red Hat) and Mac Newbold (of Code Greene).

More video from UTOSC 2008 will be showing up on OpenSourceTV.tv in the weeks to come as well as video from UTOSC 2007 and other events.

by Doran Barton at 4:59 PM under community , conference , events , keynotes , meetings , news , opensourcetv , recordings , utosc 2007 , utosc 2008 , video , videos (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» UTOSC 2008: Day 2

Day 2 seemed to be even smoother than day 1, much of the time, running around putting out little fires, but not too many. I was the room manager for Paul’s Fedora Remix talk, quite enjoyed that, even though most of it I already knew.

I also got to enjoy both keynotes today. Howard Tayler was quite entertaining with his bit about ‘The Price is Right’ and making content that doesn’t suck. Joe Brockmeier’s keynote was a bit down to earth, yet had some very fun elements. I really enjoyed the ‘Dairy Council’ idea for Linux that was brought up during the Q&A session. It reminded me that I need to send him an email for a similar idea with community conferences.

The Fedora booth was going smoothly. Unfortunately, Paul spent most of his time there, except for his presentation. Jared Smith and Nathan Blackham helped out while he was gone. Next year, I want to make sure that if we have Paul or Joe at our conference, they don’t have to spend time in the booth. It would seem they could help better in other ways. Maybe I’m wrong?

In the evening, we headed out to Tucanos Brazilian Grill at the Gateway for the UTOSC Geek/Blogger Dinner. This dinner was a complement to UTOSC 2008 so some who weren’t attendees showed up to join us. I was able to purchase brazilian lemonades for the entire group. Its so much fun spending time with geeks of my sort. Both Paul and Joe were able to attend as well.

After we consumed large portions of meat, socialized and drank ourselves into a stupor, the group started to disperse. A few of us decided to take light-rail home afterward, which was a nice departure from all of the driving I had done recently. It also gave me an opportunity to spend a few more minutes with my sweetie, Jennifer. She’s been so great throughout. I’m just happy to know she’ll support me, and she said she had a lot of fun as well.

Many, many people came by the booths from what I saw. I know the OLPC would be a big hit on Saturday, Family Day. Time to get out the little fedora shirts and show off the coolness that is Fedora.

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 3:28 PM under community , conferences , fedora , geekdinner , guru , news , passion , tech , utosc , utosc2008 (Comments)

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» Utah Open Source Conference 2008

I’ve been very busy this last two weeks updating pages and working on finalizing details for UTOSC 2008, held August 28-30, 2008. For instance, the Fedora booth is coming along nicely. For a conference of around 400, we should have a pretty good booth turnout. I had Jeffrey Tadlock, Paul Frields (who’s also keynoting btw) and its possible other NA Ambassadors may attend. I’m really excited about this development.

In addition, Joe Brockmeier of OpenSUSE will also be keynoting and we’ve got quite a list of presenters on our website. Our goal is to help open source grow in Utah, and by providing this conference once a year, we can help our local LUGs and open source leaders. We have approximately 50 presentations, plus events and other fun stuff up our sleeve over this 3 day conference.

One of the great events returning this year is the Guru Labs Troubleshooting Challenge. We hope to have this event bigger and better this year, with cash prizes for the winner(s). There will be sign-ups available on Thursday morning at the registration booth and the contest will run all day Friday, crowning a winner Friday night!

Another great return from last year is KnowledgeBlue. With opensourceTV, they’ll be recording the video for several of our presentations and keynotes. They’ll be working just like last year (only better) to provide interviews as well with some of the leaders of the open source community. We expect you all will enjoy the videos as they go up on youtube. This year, they will focus on multiple angles and getting a good quality presentation from the presenters.

Lastly, I’d like to talk a little bit about Family Day at UTOSC, August 30, 2008. If you take a look at the presentations on Saturday, you’ll notice a bit of a trend. With a few exceptions, presentations are intended to help the family. Also, we are working on activities for the kiddies such as an OLPC, videos on MythTV, edubuntu, Fedora Electronics Lab demos and more in our try-it lab. We’re also working to acquire a moon bounce and sumo suits (for the big kids). Saturday looks to be a ton of fun.

NOTE: This doesn’t mean that we have enough family stuff, and in fact, we really don’t. One thing I’d like to see, is a presentation on content filtering for the family. Something like “Howto use Dan’s Guardian effectively” or a discussion of pfsense, smoothwall or other firewalling/filtering tools. If you have a presentation you’d like to suggest in this area, please let me know by commenting or emailing me.

I hope to see many of you there as the cost is quite low at $70 and if you are LUG member, its only $35 until August 7 for the early bird pricing. Read more on our website at http://2008.utosc.com or register directly with eventbrite at http://utosc2008.eventbrite.com.

See you all there.

Herlo

by herlo at 5:26 PM under 2008 , community , conference , conferences , fedora , guru , news , opensuse , presentations , tech , utos , utosc , video (Comments)

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» Introducing the Utah Apple Users Group

I am pleased to announce the formation of a new local users group: The Utah Apple Users Group. We are a group of technophiles that use—and even cherish—products designed by Apple in California. We mainly exist simply as a mailing list where we converse and assist each other.

The state currently has two other related user groups—the BYU Macintosh Users Group and the Utah Macintosh Users Group—but both are affiliated with universities and thus governed by external policies and politics.They are also Macintosh groups, whereas this group covers all things Apple; and, as you are probably aware, Apple has recently expanded it’s product line in significant areas other than their Macintosh computer. UMUG also doesn’t have a mailing list and their forum has been offline for a long time. So, wether you’re a photographer using Aperture, a home theater nut hooking up your Apple TV, an entrepreneur using an iPhone, or a novice with a new iPod, jump on our mailing list and lets chat. We want everyone to feel welcome wether you are a student, a professional, or anyone else.

We do not plan on coordinating any events; we’re going to keep this simple. A website will be coming soon with syndicated news and events and we have an IRC channel for chatting in real time. Join the mailing list by sending an email to utahapple-subscribe@utahapple.org.

by wade at 6:58 PM under news (Comments)

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» Announcing a UTOSC keynote speaker: Paul Frields

It’s time to let loose information about yet-another keynote speaker for the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference. We are very pleased to announce that attendees at the upcoming conference will have the fortune of hearing from Paul Frields, current Fedora Project Leader (FPL).

Before being employed by Red Hat and serving in the FPL position, Paul worked as an engineer for the U.S. government, but has been intimately involved in the Fedora Project community since 2003 (after Red Hat created the Fedora Project out of the ashes of the free Red Hat Linux distribution). Paul’s involvement with Fedora has included working on and chairing the steering committee for the Fedora Documentation Project.

Paul lives in Fredericksburg, VA with his wife and 2 children where he also helps manage FredLUG - the Fredericksburg Linux User Group.

Paul’s personal blog illustrates that he represents many in the open source community. In addition to being a outspoken advocate of open source software and the communities surrounding open source projects, Paul loves music (playing and listening) and good movies. He lists as one thing he hates that he can’t just play music and hack on Linux all day.

As the FPL, Paul claims accountability for everything in the Fedora project. He works with the Fedora Program Manager, Fedora Engineering Manager, and Fedora Community Architecture teams to make sure Fedora is on track and making progress toward meeting the goals of their next release and supporting the community using the current releases. Paul also manages a handful of Fedora Project packages.

Paul plans to talk about the Fedora Project in his keynote presentation, how it came about, where it’s going, and some of the challenges it has faced in its five year existence.

We are truly lucky to have Paul Frields along with Joe Brockmeier as keynote speakers at this year’s conference!

A blurb about the conference

The 2008 Utah Open Source Conference is the second annual gathering of open source enthusiasts in Utah. Following the amazingly successful first conference held in 2007 at Novell’s Open Source Technology Center in Provo, UT, this year’s conference is being held on the Redwood campus of Salt Lake Community College near Salt Lake City.

For more information about this conference, to register to attend, or to see a really neat website driven by open source software, go over to <http://2008.utosc.com/>.

by Doran Barton at 12:09 AM under community , conference , events , fedora project , keynotes , keynote speaker , news , paul frields , utosc (Comments)

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» So Much Media Blather

I was eating breakfast at Gondolfo’s when I noticed that Fox News was covering this hard-hitting story from the Associate Press. Apparently a recent poll shows that pet-owners prefer McCain.

Wow. It’s a good thing there are no important issues that could be covered right now. Of course, by important issues I mainly mean dead bombshells whose childrens’ potential fathers are squabbling over custody of the money, former baseball stars who may have used steroids (thank you congress for overseeing those hearings), or even the transcendently wise tips on wearing sunscreen since –this just in– the sun is still hot.

by Jordy at 6:05 PM under associated press , fox news , john mccain , journalism , media , news , politics (Comments)

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» Reminder: Jayce^ on Couchcast.org today (NOON MDT)

Last week, we announced that Jayce^ Hall will be on couchcast.org. Well that day is today, so come and listen to him and the couchcast crew as they discuss who will be at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008.

Here’s the details again just in case you missed them the first time:

When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT (Today)
Where: http://couchcast.org

See you all there!

by Clint at 4:47 PM under 2008 , conference , events , news , podcasts , speakers , streaming , swag , utosc (Comments)

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» Utah Open Source Conference 2007 Registration Opens

Registration for the Utah Open Source 2007 is open tonight. If you’ve been waiting to join us for what is truly shaping up to be a great conference, sign up now!

Those of us who’ve spent the past year working hard to bring you this conference would like to invite you to register. Registrations are now being accepted.

https://register.utosc.org

There are two major parts to this conference:

Keynote

The Open Source Definition author Bruce Perens will launch the conference with a free, yes I said free, keynote speech on September 6, 2007 at 7pm for the first 100 people. This keynote is free and you aren’t required to sign up for the rest of the conference.

If you are not among the first 100 registrants for the keynote, don’t worry. You can still come to the keynote as part of a full conference package. Make sure to choose the keynote when you register. We have room for many more at the keynote, though the exact number will be determined at a later date.

Conference

On September 7 and 8, we have more than 30 planned presenters, most of which are from Utah. Many of these presenters are big names in Utah Technology, including names like Phil Windley, Tim Riker and many more. The full list will be available very soon on the registration site.

by Clint at 8:46 AM under news (Comments)

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» Call for Papers

Utah Open Source Conference 2007: The Convergence…

September 6-8, 2007

Call for Papers

The Utah Open Source Conference is a gathering of prominent Utah computer experts and business people with a common goal of applying open source technologies to create real world solutions.

This conference is looking for presenters who wish to share their experience and/or expertise with the community. Any subject associated with the implementation or use of open source technology is welcome, whether targeted at the business case, the geeks from the computer room, or anywhere in between. We are looking for innovations and solutions that can inspire and encourage others in their application of open source in the real world.

Topic ideas include:

Business solutions (process, applications, infrastructure)
IT management and implementation
Web development
Language skills (Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby)
Emerging technologies

Presentations should be prepared for a 90 minute class.

To submit papers for this conference please send an outline to participate@utos.org.

Example Outline:

Title: Leveraging Open Source for Billing Infrastructures
Keywords: Open Source, Billing, Accounting, Finance, Postgres, Perl
Audience: Businesses wishing to learn about a new open source billing system
Overview: Billing is a basic need of every business, but accounting is missing from most programmer’s educations. Learn about available tools for the small business that have the right mix of accounting and geek.

The Utah Open Source Conference is shaping up to be the key event for Utah Technology. Whether you are presenting, or simply attending, there will be something for everyone. Learn more at http://www.utosc.org.

If you know anybody who would be interested in presenting, please forward this message.

by Christer at 6:00 PM under news (Comments)

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» Utah Open Source Conference and CouchCast

Hey everybody!

Guess what! The Utah Open Source Foundation’s very own Jason Hall (Jayce^ [the face]) will be discussing the Utah Open Source Conference with Robert Merrill et al, on CouchCast.

CouchCast is a local show with topics around technology and business. Its a call-in show, so be sure to get on the line in advance and ask questions. Feel free to dial in around noon, 347-324-3797 and ask pretty much anything you like.

Discussions will include keynote announcements, presentations, family day, the Utah Open Source Awards, the troubleshooting challenge (last years big hit) and many other aspects of the conference at the end of August.

Jayce will also be discussing the Utah Open Source Foundation, its purpose, goals and plans for 2009. Things like live streaming of Local User Group meetings, podcasts and other events to make it easier to spread the word about open source in Utah.

Feel free to check it out, here’s how:

When: July 7, 2008 12pm MDT
Where: http://couchcast.org (yes, its flash, sorry) –> hosted by blogtalkradio.

Enjoy the show!

by Clint at 5:33 PM under 2008 , awards , community , conference , couchcast , events , jayce^ , news , podcasts , recordings , registration , utosc (Comments)

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» The Utah Open Source Conference countdown has begun!

Hi all,

Its been a few days since we blogged about the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 (in fact, more like 2+ weeks). But I’m back now and ready to let you guys know that while there might be a few more bumps in our migration path, most of the Utah Open Source servers are up and working well.

We have been busy lately, preparing for an exciting and fun Utah Open Source Conference 2008. New features continue to crop up on our main site. Check them out and start watching for speakers as we’ll be approving presentations over the next few weeks. The selection committee, made up of many professional geeks, LUG leaders and others, has been madly voting for their favorites so it looks to be a good list of presentations.

As of right now, UTOSC 2008 will begin in approximately 63 days. And due to this, I’ve taken the time to create a little javascript that can be included in your site, with a neat countdown. Have a look at the right hand side of our site.

We’d like to invite everyone to put this link on their website to help us get more people interested in the countdown. Basically, this is a very similar countdown script to the ones released by each of the big Linuxes (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE).

Just stick this code anywhere on your site:

<script id=“utosc-banner”
type=“text/javascript”
src=“http://dl.utosc.com/08/scripts/release-counter-ext.js”>
</script>

You should get something similar to this:

See you all at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008!

Cheers,

Clint

by Clint at 1:22 AM under 2008 , community , conference , countdown , events , news , registration , utosc (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» Anyone have a spare $600?

Welcome to my disappointment. Welcome to my frustration. Welcome, welcome to my not being able to attend FUDCon! Did I mention I was frustrated and disappointed? Well, if I didn’t, I am!

Here’s the story.

Many of you probably know that I work for Guru Labs, and as such, I teach Linux for a living. This coming week, I was on my way, I really was, to New York City to teach a Local System Administration class.

It was all set. I was going to fly from NYC to Boston on Friday afternoon after my class. The room was booked at the conference, I even had committed to helping do video recordings of each of the FUDCon attendees (something like 150 of them) on cheese.

Then Friday the 13th happened….

Normally, I like Friday the 13th, and with the exception of this event, it was a great one. At the last minute, I was informed the class had been cancelled. Now, this isn’t an abnormal thing and usually I’m not this upset about a class being cancelled. Saying that means I was banking on some things which normally pull through, but they didn’t All in all, I’m only frustrated that I can’t go to FUDCon!

I tried hard to still go. In fact, I finagled and attempted to convince any of the other instructors I could into letting me teach their class. I hit up my friends for $600, all to no avail. The cost of the hotel was $400 already, adding another $600 is not in my budget, I’m afraid. And people say that airlines don’t make any money!

So I will miss you all and the wonderful barcamp sessions I was planning on attending. I’ll miss Paul’s first State of Fedora address. I’ll miss chatting Seth up about yum, Spot about RPM and politics in general, or Michael about cobbler and func. In fact, I wanted to spend a bit of time talking with Jef about video and gstreamer, but I guess I’ll just have to wait until FUDCon F11 in 2009 :(

Could someone video record each of them and post them? Or at least the audio? Hehe, I know that’s a lot of work, but hey, it can’t hurt to ask. In fact, if you are willing to stream audio, I have an IceCast server and I’d be happy to help configure your client to accomplish this task.

Cheers,

Clint

by herlo at 5:43 PM under audio , conferences , fedora , fudcon , news , tech (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» Fedora 9 is out!

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-May/msg00007.html

Get yours today! http://fedoraproject.org

Be sure and digg it too:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_9_Sulphur_Released

by herlo at 2:04 PM under community , f9 , fedora , guru , news , passion , releases , tech (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Linux Release Party Outtakes

Well, usually I forget to take pictures, because either A) I forget my camera [I brought it this time] or 2) I get wrapped up in the event and forget to bring it with me. But this release party, I plain just forgot to charge my batteries for my camera, oops!

Fortunately, I was able to snap a few pictures with some of the spare, also not fully-charged, batteries I did have on hand. However, others took many pictures and I’ve listed them below.

Sheri Bigelow took some great pictures. She is a great local photographer, web designer and the local webmistress.
Tristan Rhodes, a local Asterisk Entrepreneur posted a good blog post.
Here’s the pictures I took. Not nearly as many, or as good.

To summarize the party, much celebration was had with foosball, a chess game on one of the largest chess boards around, video games, air hockey and much more was provided by CodeGreene. The FedoraProject and Utah Open Source sponsored the food and prizes. If you’ve never had a Chipotle burrito, they are the best burritos around.

I was able to spend time with about 5-7 people myself sharing the Preview Release of Fedora 9 (codename Sulphur) including two who had never had previous success with Fedora or Linux in general. It was very satisfying to see things work for them.

The Ubuntu folks were there in strength as well. The Hardy Heron (8.04) CDs were being passed out, while we Fedoran’s provided LiveUSB versions. I even saw people taking advantage and obtaining both! Its great to see communities come together and celebrate together.

The party continued at Salt Lake Pizza & Pasta for another couple hours. Lot’s of talk about the releases, upcoming events, and general mayhem took place including having Heartsbane shoot beer through his nose when I swore at him!

All in all, quite a successful evening and I look forward to helping others in November at our next release party.

Cheers,

Herlo

UPDATE: Another 70+ pictures have been added, check them out!

by herlo at 7:09 AM under code greene , community , f9 , fedora , guru , hardy , install , news , passion , release party , releases , stickers , tech , ubuntu , utos (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» The OLPC Deserves Better!

The following two articles were published in the past couple days. When they were published and made known to me, I was saddened:

Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP
Nicholas Negroponte on Sugar and One Laptop Per Child

It appears, that Greg DeKoenigsberg responded (it appears) to these two articles with a great rebuttal in this article:

OLPC Developers are *not* fundamentalists

Thank you Greg, thank you for saying what I feel inside. As an open source advocate, I see the value and benefit of free software and its power. I feel good inside when I contribute and don’t feel anything like a fundamentalist.

Again, thank you Greg.

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 11:36 PM under collaboration , community , fedora , gregdek , guru , negroponte , news , olpc , onelaptop , passion , rants , tech , thank , utos (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» I guess we’ll wait

As many of you may already know, Fedora 9 (codename: Sulphur) has been pushed back 2 weeks to May 13. Being the organizer of the Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Linux Release Party on May 3, its kind of hard to push it back because Ubuntu’s release is still on time.

I’m glad though that the major parts of this release are feature complete and its just a few blocker bugs holding it back. I’m also really happy to point out that because the folks at the Fedora Project are willing to push the date back, the release will be much better off in the end.

This also goes to show that while many businesses would consider releasing anyway. Mainly because they promised something, and not releasing would cost them revenue and possible customers. Open source people don’t follow the same mantra, and I’m proud to say that while I like meeting deadlines, if deadlines slips a little to make a better product, timelines should slip.

In the meantime, enjoy the preview release made available yesterday. Utah will party with this preview. Shortly after the party, an update will be made available via yum. There are some amazing things coming out in a few weeks. Keep your ear to the ground and enjoy the new Sulphur in your life!

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 11:31 PM under community , fedora , guru , news , passion , release party , releases , sulphur , tech , ubuntu , yum (Comments)

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» Utah Open Source Foundation and Ubuntu Utah bring you a release party of gigantic proportion

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) will be released April 29, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) will be released April 24, 2008

All are welcome to join in the celebration of newly released Fedora and Ubuntu distributions. Ubuntu Utah has been gracious to allow revelers from the Fedora camp join in with the Ubuntu Utah team. The entire event will be sponsored by the Utah Open Source Foundation who will also provide food.

FOOD IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, SO COME EARLY AND COME HUNGRY!

If you’ve never been to a release party, they are a blast, and this one proves to be nothing less than spectacular. In fact, Code Greene’s owner Mac Newbold has offered up his office (or rather playground) for us to hold our party. Code Greene has foosball, video games, pool, music and more for all to enjoy.

Why: Release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Fedora Sulphur (F9)
When: May 3, 2008, 6-8pm (or thereabouts)
Where: Code Greene, 44 Exchange Place Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Please RSVP via upcoming.org if you are participating.

Cheers,

Clint Savage / Aaron Toponce
UTOSF / Ubuntu Utah

by Clint at 4:08 PM under community , events , f9 , hardyheron , installfest , news , sulphur , ubuntu , usergroups (Comments)

Clint Savage
herlo

» Is Google Calendar really that Lucky?

I was perusing today, and maybe its just because its April Fools day and I’ve not posted, but I thought this was pretty hilarious…

If you click to add a new calendar item into Google Calendar, you get a new button “I’m Feeling Lucky”…

After clicking this new button I recognized, here’s what I got:

Woohoo! So right before the Ubuntu/Fedora Release party on May 3, I have a date with Jessica Alba! Nice! I might blow off the release party if the date goes well…

I tried this a few more times and here’s the results I’ve received. I’ve got dates with:

Anna Kournikova on May 5 at 4pm
Eric Cartman on May 10 at 6pm
George W. Bush on May 6 at 4pm
Matt Damon on May 8 at 8pm

Wow! I’m popular. Who else, what else did you get?

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 10:00 PM under calendar , community , fool , funny , google , guru , news , tech , tools (Comments)

Clint Savage
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» Google Summer of Code: Jumping into the fire

So I’ve done it.

Yes, I really have done it this time!

Well, maybe…time will tell.

I’ve gone and posted an idea for a project on the Fedora wiki page for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), but that’s not all, no!

In addition, I took the time to apply to be a mentor at the Google Summer of Code Project page. And what’s weirder, is I hope I get the opportunity to make this idea a reality, because I think its something that Fedora could really use.

I’m somewhat surprised it hasn’t already been created. A couple of people found this idea too, and have emailed me about it, and I need to reply. Soon that will happen.

I am really excited.

Cheers,

Herlo

by herlo at 6:47 AM under collaboration , community , f9 , fedora , gsoc , guru , mentor , news , tech , tools , webinstall (Comments)

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